Ivan Engler (Medician)

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Ivan Engler (*13). June 1931 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia; † January 30, 2017 was a Slovak-Austrian surgeon and writer.

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His father Paul Engler was a district doctor, his mother Anna b. Kontšek is an artist. In 1949 he graduated in Prešov and completed his doctorate in 1955 at the MF University P. J. Šafárik, Košice, Slovakia. Then he worked as a microbiologist in the research of genital tuberculosis. From 1957 he trained as a specialist in Bratislava, Brno and Vienna, while in the Clinic for Pediatric Surgery and Neurosurgery of MF Univ. Komenský worked in Bratislava. In 1963 he was appointed the youngest Ordinary for Traumatology in the then ČSSR. In 1965 he fled because of persecution without possessing a passport. In Austria he was recognized as a political refugee. In 1968 he received Austrian citizenship and completed his doctorate at MF Univ. Vienna to Dr. med. univ.

1965-1969 he worked at the Lorenz Böhler accident hospital Vienna. In 1969 he headed the accident clinic Dr. Gut in St. Moritz, Switzerland. As captain of the Austrian Federal Army, he headed the surgical department of the UN Field Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1970. 1973-1977 he was a senior physician in the AUVA Rehabilitation Center in Bad Häring. In a car accident in 1977, he suffered a cervical spine injury and could no longer work as a surgeon. After training in various natural healing methods in Germany, China, Taiwan and India, he led a private practice in Salzburg from 1978 to 1995, where he also worked with various methods of oxygen application. In 1981 he was elected Head of Medical Research for Naturheilverlebnis e.V. in Salzburg.

After democratization in Slovakia, he became a university lecturer at the Institute of Biology and Parasitology, MF Komenský Univ in 1990. Bratislava and at the same time received the status of a foreign Slovak. At the MF of the Univ. P.J.Šafarik in Košice, he achieved the Philosophiae Doctor-PhD in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Physiology there.

Since youth, Ivan Engler has been literary under the name Ivo Engler. The travel reports and the stories of him were published in several newspapers, for example Kulturný Život, Smena, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Salzburger Nachrichten, etc. His games were broadcast on Slovak radio and Slovak television.

Engler is divorced and father of two children.

“Ionized Oxygen Therapy”
Engler founded a treatment method with oxygen in 1980, which he called ionized oxygen therapy, also ionized oxygen therapy (sic!) or IO2Th/Engler. Here, defined mixtures of medical oxygen with selectively negative or positive oxygen ions are to be produced by a specially designed device and supplied to the body, which should bring about a multitude of therapeutic effects. Bean